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• Piston
  In general, a '''piston''' is a sliding [[plug]] that fits closely inside the [[bore]] of a [[cylinder (geometry)|cylinder]]. ...]] enclosed by the cylinder, or to exert a [[force]] on a [[fluid]] inside the cylinder.
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• Crossflow cylinder head
  ..." ([[hemispherical]]) [[cylinder]] head being ported and red arrow showing the super efficient straight through air passage way'''</center>]] ...head. This is in contrast to cylinder head designs that have the ports on the same side.
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• Garelli Mosquito
  ...[[bicycle]] to transform it into an bike with pedal assisted power and was the most successful of this type throughout [[Europe]]. ...the cycle without interfering with the position of the pedals. Because of the considerable requests it became necessary to open a manufacturing branch in
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• Bandini formula junior
  The '''Bandini formula junior''' is a racing [[car]] model produced from [[1959 The formula was a junior category promotional designed [[Europe]] and [[USA|Uni
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• Frera
  ...f a small car called the Piccolo, an air-cooled 2-cylinder engine. In 1913 the factory gates of Frera forever closed. '''Frera''' was the name of a [[company]] in [[Italy]] that build [[motorcycle|motorcycles]] ba
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• Cyclo-cross
  ...orld championship was held in Paris in [[1950]]. The sport is strongest in the traditional road cycling countries (and particularly so in [[Flanders]]). ...sport, although unridable sections are generally a very small fraction of the race distance.
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• Ansaldo
  ...omobile]] manufactured by an armaments concern from [[1921]] to [[1931]]. The company entered car manufacture with an [[ohc]] 1847[[Cubic centimetre|cc]] ...s to utilize its excess production capacity, because the war had ended and the demands of war products had ceased.
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• Power (physics)
  ...rgy]] flow, equivalent to the rate of change of the energy in a system, or the time rate of doing work, :''W'' is [[mechanical work|work]]
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• Transmission
  ...ich power is transmitted. In daily life, individuals most often encounter the transmissions used in [[automobile]]s, which cover an ever-expanding array ...ear(s) may be an "[[overdrive (mechanics)|overdrive]]" type that increases the output speed.
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• Torque
  ...e fulcrum. This assumes the force is in a direction at [[right angle]]s to the straight lever. ...(which has the position '''r''' in some reference frame) can be defined as the [[cross product]]:
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• Electro-pneumatic brake system on British railway trains
  ...ssful technical advance, enabling a quicker and more sensitive response to the driver’s operation of brake controls. ...ore effective than the generally prevailing vacuum brake then in favour in the UK. However it had disadvantages, chiefly:
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• Fiat 24-32 HP
  ...Fiat 24-32 HP''' was introduced by the Italian manufacturer Fiat in 1903. The car was designed to allow [[coachbuilder]]s to make bodies for it, it was o There were more than 400 copies made in the plant Corso Dante in [[Turin]].
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• Steering
  ...which [[rail tracks]] combined together with [[railroad switch]]es provide the steering function. ...o move at different speeds or even in opposite directions to bring about a change of course.
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• CNA
  [[Image:Gilera 4.jpg|right|thumb|The Gilera 500 4C, the latest evolution "Rondine"]] ...'''Gilera 500 4C''' is an [[Italian]] [[motorcycle]] manufacturer. Unlike the traditional trend for technological motor companies, usually established in
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• Lancia Trikappa
  The '''Lancia Trikappa''' is a passenger car produced by Lancia between 1922 an ...ed cars would come too expensive to produce and decided to use V8 instead. The Trikappa was first small V angle engine typical for Lancia.
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• Fully-automatic transmission
  ...ange [[gear ratio]]s automatically as the car or truck moves, thus freeing the driver from having to shift gears [[manual transmission|manually]]. (Simila ...s are still generally more efficient. (This balance may finally shift with the introduction of practical [[continuously variable transmission]]s; see belo
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• ALCA
  ...omic conditions were still difficult in Europe after the Second World War, the Company '''ALCA''' (Anonima Lombarda Cabotaggio Aereo), located in [[Milan] ...engers besides the [[dashboard]] and the spare [[wheel]] and later we find the petrol [[tank]] and [[engine]].<br>
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• Lancia Aurelia
  |colspan=2|<center>'''Lancia Aurelia Coupe at the Copperstate 1000'''</center> ...Jano]], the Aurelia was launched in [[1950]] and production lasted through the summer of [[1958]].
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• Alfa Romeo Spider Veloce
  ...offman|Dustin Hoffman's]] Spider (1966 1600 Duetto) runs out of gas in ''[[The Graduate]].'']] ...for almost three decades with only minor aesthetic and mechanical changes. The three first series were assembled by
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• Understeer
  ...ndersteers, the front wheels lose traction and the vehicle tends to follow the red dotted line.''']] ...accelerations, and is what racing drivers are talking about when they use the term.
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